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Golden Grrrls - New Pop 7”

Chris Devotion & The Expectations - Amalgamation & Capital (album)

Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester (album)

Throwing Up - Mother Knows Best 7”

Howling Wolf - Complete Chess Masters 1951-60

The Ketamines - A Rotten Bond/1 Yr (from Oddbox Singles Club Pt 2)

Cardinal - Hymns (album)

Proper Ornaments - Taking the Gamble Out of Buying 12”

Darren Hayman - January Songs (album)

Various: Marshall Teller EP 12”

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Single/Download Review

The Exhibition
The Crown/Coma Of National Importance

Article written by Matt H - Jun 5, 2010

The Exhibition - The Crown/Coma

The two sides of this single both show The Exhibition to be be more-than-decent purveyors of moody northern indie-rock. There's plenty doing this sort of thing of course, but what makes the Exhibition recall the 80s wellspring rather than some of their more inexplicably popular contemporaries is their restraint. Where a more XfM band would go for the big emotional punch and bore the arse off you* The Exhibition hold back to good effect.

You could ask 'em to cheer up a bit, but they're from Barnsley, so probably best that they stick to slightly gloomy introspection. They're good at it.

*You know what I mean: the big, Snow Patrol virtual-faglighter chorus, apparently designed to set off the lager tears in the sort of blokes-together halfwits who the Carling ads are aimed at...

Links:
http://ofnationalimportancerecords.co.uk/2010/04/28/oni02-the-exhibition-debut-single/
http://www.myspace.com/wearetheexhibition